I'm a jackass and totally forgot to measure. If you can wait another day, I'll write a note to myself and remember to do it tomorrow.

no worries.

RE: From This Thread on NASIOC.com

I've been following that thread since way before i had my WRX. That is EXACTLY what i want. Man, i wish i had some machine tools because i would give making something like that a go. Too bad it runs $1000 and the lead time to order form Japan seems to be eternity, literally. Someone could make a killing if they manufactured those pods here in the US.

As far as speakers go, I've got These in the rear and These in the front.

Those Infinity 4"ers just fit right in the rear slot don't they? That might be a better option for me than the 4.5" Diamonds i was looking at... I just hate mixing speaker brands for some reason.

being a good owner and getting thru those first 1,000 mi. w/out heavy boost is such a bitch!

I KNOW! It was killing me. At around 950 i started pushing it and went all the way the second it hit 1000. =] The turbo is amazing... way different than when the good ol' VTEC would kick in on my Si.

As for the bezel sticking out, it does bug me a little... If you can figure a way to get it flush I would probably want do the same

Yeah, i'm about to run out the othe car and take the panel off so i can give it a once over. I'm gonna try and flush mount it if i end up putting it down there and not in the pod. Can't wait to see your new install pics.

It sits on the heater vent ducting which runs pretty straight back from those 2 dash vents. There is a surprising amount of odd space in there for various things, but I would be very surprised if you could mount the Empeg in the OE gauge pod. Those gauges aren't very deep.

What is that bracket for, your rally computer? Sweet. I'd love to see a shot of that all hooked up. As for the space... i've seen it done with a standard DIN lcd slide out screen type thing in many pics on NASIOC, so i figure it's gotta fit somehow. Thought the empeg's sled might be a hindrence.

If you were going to leave the stock head unit, were you just going to work around it?

If i keep it i'll either use one of those switchers that detects the source and switches to it, or hack the connector on the back. There's a ton of info on what all the pins do and i've even seen one guy who soldered to the board on the CD changer circuit to get the sound in, but i wanna avoid going through that deck. It's all just speculation at this point. I mainly want to keep that space open for a possible future touchscreen LCD there, but that's down the road.

Oh and I really liked morrisdl's "reverse connector" trick and I might have tried it on the WRX

That's exactly what i was gonna try if it ends up there.

So many options!